Regional News

GMB, the union for cleaning staff, will rally outside the headquarters of Premium Support Services Limited tomorrow, calling for them to pay their staff correctly following the transfer of the John Lewis at Bluewater cleaning contract to them on 12th September....

Members are furious and morale is plunging as a result of management's failure to deliver on their commitment to equalise pay rates, says GMB Southern
GMB, the trade union for members working at Forterra’s Newbury site (a heavy building materials supplier), have announced that they are balloting to take strike action over failure by the Forterra management to address the fact that workers at another site are paid significantly more for doing the same jobs. This is despite committing to moving towards pay parity in the 2017 pay talks....

GMB call on the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead to abandon pay freeze proposals for council employees.
Teresa May claims that ‘austerity is over and there are better days ahead’ while Austerity continues in her constituency, says GMB Southern...

270,398 private rented households in Southern Region get average of £111.13 per week in housing benefits rising to £169.52 in Elmbridge. “As new claims for support are now via Universal Credit and those who get housing benefit will transfer to Universal Credit, it is essential that the design and implementation is right, which it is not”, says GMB Southern...

GMB welcome increase of UK Living Wage to £9 per hour and £10.55 per hour in London and call on employers to start paying it. “It’s time for more employers to start paying it, in particular contractors in the public sector and the NHS who should be forced to pay it”, says GMB Southern...

GMB Welcome South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust independent four month study in full. “It is how the report is received and actioned by SWAST going forward that GMB members and staff will judge them on”, says GMB...

GMB secure millions in compensation for low paid workers working for the Royal Borough of Greenwich. “This result represents a great victory for the predominately women workers employed on term time contracts”, says GMB Southern...

£1,275 per month for two-bedroom flat in Guildford tops Southern Region’s private rent league while £600 per month in Shepway and Isle of Wight are the lowest rents. “If employers don't respond with higher pay they will face staff shortages as workers, especially younger people, are priced out of housing market”, says GMB Southern...

GMB call on Veolia to bin draconian sickness policy changes to avert strike action at depots in London, South East and South West. “We are calling on the company to abandon these changes or else we will have no option but to escalate the matter to a strike that should be avoidable”, says GMB Southern...

GMB call on IoW NHS trust, NHS England and National Government to generate strategy to address threat to services brought on by Brexit uncertainty. “People on the island do not wish to see to see services having to be cut by a pressurised trust management have to address a serious set of circumstances beyond their control”, says GMB Southern...

GMB members at Thames Ambulance send open letter on behalf of colleagues to Sussex CCGs to plead for intervention in saving PTS Ambulance jobs. “Members have been expressing their disappointment at both Thames Ambulance’s decision to cut jobs and the CCG’s lack of public support and willingness to intervene with Thames on their behalf”, says GMB Southern...

"The Trust have sought to reduce their financial deficit through any number of measures over recent times, many of which have purposely targeted or indirectly affected hard working loyal NHS frontline and support staff", says GMB Southern...